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BCSHCI
2009
13 years 6 months ago
Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users
Personal robots and screen agents can be equipped with social abilities to facilitate interaction. This paper describes our research on the influence of these abilities on elderly...
Marcel Heerink, Ben J. A. Kröse, Bob J. Wieli...
EACL
2006
ACL Anthology
13 years 6 months ago
Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays
We describe an implementation of datadriven selection of emphatic facial displays for an embodied conversational agent in a dialogue system. A corpus of sentences in the domain of...
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
CHI
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor
Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...
ATAL
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Authoring scenes for adaptive, interactive performances
In this paper, we introduce a toolkit called SceneMaker for authoring scenes for adaptive, interactive performances. These performances are based on automatically generated and pr...
Patrick Gebhard, Michael Kipp, Martin Klesen, Thom...
ECAL
1995
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Can Development Be Designed? What we May Learn from the Cog Project
Neither `design' nor `evolutionary' approaches to building behavior-based robots feature a role for development in the genesis of behavioral organization. However, the n...
Julie C. Rutkowska